Yesterday was in Baldwin Park (see picture–little one) with friends at Gators http://gatorsdockside.com/ for lunch and a few drinks…nice way to break up the day. Didn’t do much else than work the rest of the time. Honorable Mention today is the restaurant I just wrote a review of: Sunny Breeze Café https://www.facebook.com/sunnybreezecafe Great Latin specialties. Have you checked my novel out lately? https://www.pinterest.com/lindachase56829/my-novels/
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CAIT talks about the spanking scene and Claire’s loss of freedom in Paris Season 2: http://www.designntrend.com/articles/61479/20150924/outlander-tv-series-cast-member-sam-heughan-really-relished-season-1-spanking-scene.htm
check out my Outlander Pins: https://www.pinterest.com/lindachase56829/why-i-love-outlander/
Shadows of a thousand years
Rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees
‘Tonight is Halloween!’
Dexter Kozen
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the monsters that make the day worth while:
They have been around for years and have developed into a whole THING all their own—They drink blood, bite necks and smolder in the shadows….Bella Lugosi became famous just because he played one…even Brad Pitt (it’s rumored that Tom Cruise wore lifts in his shoes while making that little vampire gem cause he’s only 5’7″ while Pitt is 4 inches taller) did one—even his Bud George Clooney killed them in old Mexico.
Ugliest Vampire ever: NOSFERATU (1922 silent)—no romantic notion could be inspired by this horrible monster—-unless you really have self hate issues.
The movie that ended with it’s star buried in his cape: Dracula (1931) Bella Lugosi played other vampires and monsters through the 30’s and 40’s but to this day this is the one that made him, and the villain he played, famous.
Hark! Hark to the wind! ‘Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away-
The dead, forgotten this many a day!
Virna Sheard
Hottest Dracula (not hotter than Pitt, but he played a Vampire not THE Vampire. DRACULA (1979). Frank Langella does the ultimate blood sucker in the 1920’s–in a seductive interpretation.
Most off base Vampire Epic DRACULA (1992)–Gary Oldman as a strange title character who is in love—please this just didn’t work..and I mean anyhow, any way despite what Francis Ford Coppola spent making it.
The Brat Pack does Dracula: LOST BOYS (1987)—California Vampires with Kiefer Sutherland push party all night and never grow old—until I wrote that I never realized how close the California life style was to being a Vampire—wow.
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve…. And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.
Kim Elizabeth
Bad guys meet worse: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996) Quentin Tarantino (worse psycho brother) and his brother (Clooney) kill people and kidnaps a family and wait for someone at a bar in Old Mexico that just happens to be full of vampires—all I can say is Clooney is hot (and psychotic) while Tarantino becoming a vampire seems somehow appropriate to his usual reputation in making movies But I don’t recommend the movie while you’re sober.
Whiney Vampire tells what’s not right about being a vampire. INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (1995). I am not a big Anne Rice fan—she always has whiney characters and in this movie he’s Brad Pitt. While the movie is told by an ancient vampire who is human until his wife dies and he meets Tom Cruise (the main character who bitches about Pitt’s whinning–at least I’m not the only one this drives crazy) who makes him immortal which turns out to not just being only undying pleasure.
Hybrid that sets out to save the world from his bad half: BLADE (1998),BLADE II (2002), BLADE TRINITY (2004) Wesley Snipe does a nice job on these but I liked the less complicated plot of the first but the addition of Ryan Reynolds in the third (who knew in Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (TV Series 1998–2001 that he had that body lurking under his boring wardrobe–hot). But by the 3rd one I wanted a Vampire program so I could tell who was who, way and wherefore?
Of the grave’s delight…
~ Arthur Cleveland Coxe.
A series that creates a Vampire/Lycan mythology: UNDERWORLD (2003), UNDERWORLD EVOLUTION (2006), UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS (2009) in which a beautiful vampire (actual beings not undead) Kate Bekinsale (who played sister of werewolf and vampire killer with Hugh Jackman as VAN HELSING, in a weird graphic novel type offering that was panned by critics but which I loved) I enjoyed these first three but as they continue on I kinda lost interest—I mean 3 is about the length of my movie interest span—sorry.
When a 90+ Vampire (who’s still in High School) meets a teen girl why am I the only one bothered: THE TWILIGHT MOVIES. I watched the first and decided that I didn’t do poorly made Vampire movies–what amazed me is the adult 40ish woman who followed these, didn’t he die in the maze and Harry brought his body home?
Across the sky,
The owls go, “Who? Who? Who?”
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
“Scary Halloween to you!”
–Nina Willis Walter
VAMPIRES HAVE APPEARED ON:
Sesame Street (Muppet 1970s)
Starsky & Hutch (Season 2, 1976)
X-Files (Season 2, 1994)
Smallville (season 5, 2005)
Shows with Regular Vampires:
The Munsters, a silly little show with Grandpa and mom Lily being actual vampires and in a similar vein (oh no she didn’t say that) The Addams Family that had long been in cartoons and didn’t have any defined blood suckers but one always wondered
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (also a movie) and her lover and spin off ANGEL. Another show I never watched but my sister loved—there’s no accounting for tastes or lack there of.
DARK SHADOWS (the silly movie with Depp doesn’t count)—AS I HAVE mentioned before is given credit to starting the craving for bloody monsters lurking in the night. I enjoyed Moon Light (which didn’t last long) which goes to show I don’t go with the trends but as for TV: Which IN FACT THERE’S SO MANY THAT I W/REFER YOU TO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Vampires_in_television
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…
~Nicholas Gordon
Of the grave’s delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they – it is they.
– Arthur Cleveland Coxe
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